As a Marxist, it continually disappoints me that the British labour movement has never developed a consistent ideology that demands solidarity and activism at home whilst exporting trade unionism and a politicised working class abroad. Even with respect to Northern Ireland, the attitude of the British labour movement is hardly well thought out. Figures I respect often have extremely dubious…
Honorable Way out – The Democratic Party has a simple way to end this war and end the horrific nightmare that has been the George Bush Presidency. It’s a three step process. One: impeach Dick Cheney. This seems simple and self-evident to me. This guy has no excuse for being a member of government.His influence in pushing forward the Iraq…
A long time prior Ed Miliband gave what was marked a watershed discourse, in which he looked for utilize the Falkirk determination hoo-hah to kick-begin a radical new way to deal with party-union relations, and at last to redevelop Labor as a mass enrollment party. Why such an approach should have been kick-begun by occasions in a solitary parliamentary choice…